If you want to live a healthy life, one of the most vital organs you must take care of is your liver. The liver cleans our blood, processes different nutrients, and turns contaminants into waste products. Having a healthy liver means you’ll have better chances of avoiding type 2 diabetes, liver damage, and chronic disease….
You see them on virtually everything you eat. In most cases, nutrition facts are a federally-mandated requirement for food makers. They inform eaters about the ingredients and nutritional value of what we eat. For a good reason, too. These days, there are more chemicals than ever in our foods. Everything from chips to bread has…
Have you ever heard the term “low hanging fruit”? It describes something easy to achieve or check off a list. Depending on how you look at things, low-hanging fruit can be bad or good. A salesperson needs to go after low-hanging fruit to make sure they’re hitting their numbers, but an intelligent scientist who is…
Plant based diet fads are on the rise. Even with some people that don’t want to go completely vegan, having a plant based meal occasionally has become a disciplinary norm for a lot of us. On top of that, many are choosing to be 100% vegan. Whether it be the rise of mistreatment in factory…
Not too many people in the U.S. eat a ton of ginger. For most of us, it’s something we find in teas or maybe in some holiday treats. We eat a lot of gingerbread, for example, during the holidays every year, but ginger certainly isn’t a staple in many American diets. However, the spicy root…
Cow’s milk has long been a hero of our diets, told to provide us with strength and health. But the more we read and learn, the more we understand what’s really good for our health. And that’s got a lot of us questioning our childhood cereal-topper and beverage of choice. It’s not necessarily that dairy…
I’m no health expert. I didn’t compile this list to tell you what you should and shouldn’t eat. Every time we buy food from a package, most likely, manufactures have added something to ensure freshness, create a certain texture, or maybe even to bond ingredients. I once heard a saying, “if you can’t pronounce it,…
Pizza is one of the most popular foods, and not only in its birthplace of Italy – or even adopted birthplace, America. Pizza is internationally known and loved, and people across the globe are obsessed with pizza in all shapes and forms. Although Italy started the marinara and mozzarella trend, it’s believed that enjoying a…
Food is a way of life. Actually, it’s a requirement for life. Thus, food literally is life. And since we’ve been eating food since, well, the dawn of man, we humans have come up with about as many ways to combine ingredients into a meal as there are people on earth. Some of these combinations…
We’ve all heard since we were little kids that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” But as you’ve grown up, your list of reasons to put off or skip breakfast has probably grown, too. Everyday pressures like balancing getting enough sleep and still making it to work on time, or more personal…
Many of us associate the microwave with hot food in a hurry… and radiation. We often refer to the act of microwaving our food as “nuking” it, which, if you were alive during any part of the last century, is likely a phrase that brings to mind images of mushroom clouds and obliterating human combustion….
Food is a necessity. It can also be made into a pleasurable experience based on ingredients. One thing that can undeniably make food more desirable is mixing complementary ingredients that unlock a sensation on your tongue. Chocolate and peanut butter, anyone? Though many delicious flavor combos are commonplace in today’s world, you have to occasionally…